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This selected works of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of Poetry. The poems will be given in their original Gaelic with English translations and introduced by Angus Peter Campbell and Aonghas Mac Neacail.

Sorley MacLean was born on the island of Raasay in 1911.…

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There are several Scottish writers with strong Gaelic connections. They range from the likes of Iain Crichton Smith to Norman MacCaig and thriller writer Alistair Maclean.

The most powerful of all, however, is Sorley Maclean from Raasay which lies off the isle of Skye. In his writing, he is not parochial or insular but mingles matters like the Spanish Civil War with Hebridean life – one of the poets to whom I return again and again.

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